ABSTRACT Givón’s words “today’s morphology is yesterday’s syntax” have been widely used to describe grammaticalization, a process of linguistic change which implies an increase in the grammatical status of a word or construction. In this paper, the process of grammaticalization of (for) example and (for) instance from nouns to example markers will be described. The paper will also address the incipient lexicalization of these expressions. However, this process is still at a very early phase. In light of the corpus material, the lexicalization of for example and for instance can be summarized with the analogous formula “today’s syntax might be tomorrow’s lexis”, a more tentative motto since lexical constructions do not frequently originate in syntax. The examples analysed here show that grammaticalization and lexicalization may at times feed each other.

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语法化和词汇化交叉点的示例标记

摘要 Givón 的话“今天的形态就是昨天的句法”已被广泛用于描述语法化，这是一个语言变化的过程，意味着一个词或结构的语法地位的提高。本文将描述(for)example和(for)instance从名词到示例标记的语法化过程。本文还将讨论这些表达的初期词汇化。然而，这个过程仍处于非常早期的阶段。根据语料库材料，例如和例如的词汇化可以用类似的公式概括为“今天的语法可能是明天的词汇”，这是一个更具试探性的格言，因为词汇结构并不经常起源于语法。